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Can I join too ?

I am growing salmon flowered mangetout and black seeded simpsons lettuce and few other peas only if they go into the ground in the next week

growing  normal tomatoes like yellow pearand pricipe borghese and marmande, a a chilli and pepper maconi. Indian climbing bean showing up and cobra beans , as I managed to rot rest of bean varieties in the recent cold spells

Jan count me in for the seedcircle.Did you got some germination from the old seeds,i do.Old seeds germinate quiet slow took some time to get result.

Didn't know I would be sowing those this morning 😂

Yes I can well imagine that they can get crowded in time.  Super addition to the garden and kitchen.  They  weren't as lush last year here either. 

I should probably sort mine out. They are not in a fertile spot so they are nowhere near as wide as leek leaves, unfortunately. I'm really pleased they are doing doing so well for you Galina! (add to list: dig up and give garlic chives some TLC...)

Interesting. I already had a healthy patch of garlic chives so I didn't grow Juliev's. Mine are flat but certainly not the width of leek leaves.

I'm wondering whether it is the chicken manure or whether it's a large leaved strain. Are your originals particularly wide leaved, Juliev?

Garlic chives.  Mine are now, iirr, in their third year, originally from Juliev.  A lovely big clump.  What really surprised me this year is how flat and wide the leaves are.  Maybe that chicken manure really brought them on?  Not far short of the width of leek leaves, but much softer than leeks.  Love them!  Another plant I would have never grown, had it not been for the circle seeds.   

Quote from: markfield rover on March 31, 2026, 14:39:35Four O'Clock flower , I did the same as Vetivert and agree a little creepy for something that looks so refined when flowering . If all goes well I hope to be able to contribute to the circle. Thinking positive!!

Great to hear, MR. I'm sure all will go well but small contributions are perfectly acceptable. The bar has been set rather high recently but it feels important to emphasise that all manner of contributions are good, as long as collected with care, kept true to type and accurately named. I know you know all this, MR,  but just running through it in case anyone else is wondering about participating.

Do protect the runner beans!  Night frosts are still a possibility until mid May.  The peas should be absolutely fine, but French and runner beans are not frost hardy.  Broad beans should also be fine.

Shipping to UK is a big problem since Brexit.  But I read political moves are afoot to align UK and EU regulations to make trading easier, and I hope seeds are a part of that too.  There was an article in the press written by the English owner of Seeds of Italy on how difficult and costly it has become to import seeds from Italy to UK.  And that is a biggish commercial importer who can do reams of paperwork.  Most companies simply have given up.   

Also the list is getting a bit old, not all companies are still active.  But there are a few new seed sources in UK who offer interesting varieties. I hope the problem gets resolved soon.